Nintendo Revises Wii and DS Sales Forecast

[Pyro as Bill]

RolStoppable said:

Seece said:

Carl2291 said:

Excellent point.

@ Whoever it was who said something about whoring. Shut up. It released in May. We have no idea if they intend on whoring it yet.

@ jarrod. How is it likely overtracked? And do you have any proof at all that the game cost a lot to make? I can understand the ad campaign, but dev costs for the game itself... No.

@Mr.Metrelha It's at 500k... Since release in May. It's obviously not going to stop at 500k. You can't say it's a flop after it's a pretty small game that's sold 500k in 4/5 Months. And you must know, it's not just the big games that sell during the Holiday season.

I might add, the fierce competition on HD consoles limits what a game can sell. Fuck, do people expect most HD owners to buy even a 6th of 3rd party core games that come out, I'd be broke

That's not the case on the Wii, yet most of the core games still bomb. Let them cherrypick carl, it's all they have

That's quite ironic, considering which Wii games have been used to gauge the success of core games on the platform. Zack & Wiki, Deadly Creatures, No More Heroes etc., games that wouldn't have done better in any significant way on the HD consoles.

Then along comes Blur and its lackluster sales are blamed on fierce competition or it not being a good game in the first place. So anything below an 85 on Metacritic must be mediocre now for people who still consider the gaming media to be credible.

But anyway, that's besides the point. Let's go back to the beginning of this stack of quotes. You said that any great game will sell well on the HD consoles, following a statement from Mr. Puggsly that the only games that flopped on PS360 were not good games period. Both of you are wrong and there's really no way around it.

One more thing about the Wii: It's the only console this generation that has third party publishers shake in fear because the competition from Nintendo is so fierce. Have you ever heard anyone complain about the strength of Microsoft, Sony or one of the big third party publishers (like EA and Activision) taking away too many of the sales? Nope, didn't happen.

My favourite parts were when Mario Kart outsold the GTAs and then NSMB Wii creamed MW2, now Pokemon crushes Halo and we get to see Donkey Kong smash Gran Whatsitsname to pieces and Nintendo didn't even have to use Miis.

It's a good job Nintendo is being so lazy.